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Another great story for Curious George. My 5 yr old reads these by himself now and has been actively looking for Curious George because he likes them so much. When I asked why he enjoyed this one so much he said it was because he was a boy, and boys liked dinosaurs. This book has C.G. AND dinosaurs. What could be better than that? Well said. This is probably around a level 1 reading level for beginner readers. Great illustrations as well.

This was very creative way to send a simple message to children. By having Curious George discover the dinosaur bones after spending a lot of time sifting through dirt shows that you can accomplish anything if you don't give up. He spent much of his day working with other adults digging and sifting dirt for dinosaur bones and eventually discovered a dinosaur! This book also shows that museums aren't just educational, but fun as well! MaFIVE STARS!!

I thought this story was very creative and cute!

This was very creative way to send a simple message to children. By having Curious George discover the dinosaur bones after spending a lot of time sifting through dirt shows that you can accomplish anything if you don't give up. He spent much of his day working with other adults digging and sifting dirt for dinosaur bones and eventually discovered a dinosaur! This book also shows that museums aren't just educational, but fun as well! Many children think that museums are boring, but when they read a story like this, it may make them look forward to going to the museum (as well as other places such as a library!)

I liked the book because it was better reading it with Abuela. I liked looking and the pictures more than reading. Looking at the pictures helped me read the words. I like watching Dinosaur movies. I like this Dinosaur book.

George goes to a dig site with his friend, the man with the yellow hat. George is not having any luck finding bones until he causes an accident with a wheelbarrow and scampers away when he realizes he is in trouble. On his way up the hill, he starts a rock slide. When the rock slide clears, dinosaur bones are underneath!

Case:Cardboard yellow Endpages is plain blue which comlements the illustration int he bookThis book is a small book and would be liked by a variety of childeren. The book was very diversed by addind featuers and characters of many races. It's funny because george is a monkey who is very curious like many children. He has a white male friend who takes him to visit the dinosaur museum and after that adventure they go to a location to look for bones. The illustartor used saturated colors which evokCase:Cardboard yellow Endpages is plain blue which comlements the illustration int he bookThis book is a small book and would be liked by a variety of childeren. The book was very diversed by addind featuers and characters of many races. It's funny because george is a monkey who is very curious like many children. He has a white male friend who takes him to visit the dinosaur museum and after that adventure they go to a location to look for bones. The illustartor used saturated colors which evoked excitement. This book is good for toodlers ages two to five.I enjoyed this book....more

Curious George always seems to hit on the topic that my boys are crazy about at the moment. Obsessed with dinosaurs is an understatement. It was fun to see that in this story George uncovers a new dinosaur. In fact, they even name it Georgosaurus.

Loved these books as a kid as well as the shows. This was a fun story to read if you are headed to a museum or if you like dinosaurs. I however wasn't in either of those situations but I also enjoy the funny and silly things George gets into.

Curious George is at it again---causing trouble because of the fact that he is so curious. One day, the man with the yellow hat takes George to a fossil dig. When George tries to help, he ends up making a mess of the excavation. While trying to run away, he causes a rock slide that uncovers a never before discovered dinosaur. The new dinosaur is placed in the museum George and the man with the yellow hat frequent. It is named the Georgosaurus. Nice illustrations and a nice story.

...Read this to my sister's baby-in-the-womb...(I had picked it up a few years ago at the National Museum of Natural History, where I work, because it referenced a Dinosaur Museum.) Messages I liked: Serendipity sometimes precedes a scientific discovery; and, scientists are mixed in gender and ethnicity. Now, our band of emigrants from West Virginia realize a quest must begin to find enrichment books fit for what will surely be a radical, genius baby :).....The Quest Is On!

This was decent. I still think George would be super rich if he got paid for everything he helps out with, but at least he's treated nicely in these newer adventures. And they named his dinosaur discovery after him!

The Man in the Yellow Hat is taking George on a trip to the Dinosaur Museum. But this is not just any trip. He surprises George by taking him to a rocky quarry where scientist are searching for read dinosaur bones. After Georges curiosity leads him into mischief he ends up making a hug discovery. George finds dinosaur bones! This book is great to tie into a science lesson. It is also great for sequencing.

This would be a great book to read at the beginning of a unit on fossils to 2-3 graders. I believe that it would help to get the student engaged in what they are about to learn. I would bring in different fossils and have the students look at them and see if they are able to identify the animal, rock or thing that made made the fossil. I would also have the students make cast and fossils out of playdoh.

This is a great book about George going to a museum and dig up fossils when all of the sudden, the fossils turn into real dinosaurs. I could use this book in a lesson plan to introduce what fossils are and what they used to be. Kids would really engage in this book because like George, children are curious and they explain things in a way that appeases children's curiosity.

This book is a good way to introduce paleontology to small children and is an enjoyable version of the Curious George series. Curious George is initially frustrated by the amount of time it takes to find dinosaur bones, but eventually finds a whole t-rex skeleton. This would be a good way to teach perseverance to children.

Am I a horrible person for liking this modern imposter better than the original series? In this adventure George becomes an amateur archeologist and makes an accidental discovery. My 3 year-olds obsession with scary dinosaurs now has a little more context with a story that only shows them as bones in the ground.

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it,
click here.In this book George goes to the museum, but the man with the yellow hat takes George out the exit and a van is waiting for them. The man with the yellow hat and George get out of the van and George and the man with the yellow hat help the scientists dig up dinosaur bones. I love dinosaurs!!!! :)

The newer Curious George books don't have him causing half as much mayhem as the old ones, but I gave it four starts because it got Aiden's seal of approval because he kept trying to hit/eat the pages.

Margret Elizabeth Rey (May 16, 1906 – December 21, 1996), born Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein, was (with her husband H. A. Rey), the co-author and illustrator of children's books, best known for their Curious George

Although she was born in Germany, she fled to Brazil early in her life to escape Nazism. While there, she met her future husband Hans (who was a salesman and also from Germany). They marMargret Elizabeth Rey (May 16, 1906 – December 21, 1996), born Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein, was (with her husband H. A. Rey), the co-author and illustrator of children's books, best known for their Curious George

Although she was born in Germany, she fled to Brazil early in her life to escape Nazism. While there, she met her future husband Hans (who was a salesman and also from Germany). They married in 1935 and moved to Paris, France that same year.

While in Paris, Hans's animal drawings came to the attention of French publisher, who commissioned him to write a children's book. The result, Rafi and the Nine Monkeys, is little remembered today, but one of its characters, an adorably impish monkey named Curious George, was such a success that the couple considered writing a book just about him. Their work was interrupted with the outbreak of World War II. As Jews, the Reys decided to flee Paris before the Nazis seized the city. Hans built two bicycles, and they fled Paris just a few hours before it fell. Among the meager possessions they brought with them was the illustrated manuscript of Curious George.

The Reys' odyssey brought them to the Spanish border, where they bought train tickets to Lisbon. From there they returned to Brazil, where they had met five years earlier, but this time they continued to New York, New York. The books were published by Houghton Mifflin in 1941, though certain changes had to be introduced because of the technology of the time. Hans and Margret originally planned to use watercolors to illustrate the books, but since they were responsible for the color separation, he changed these to the cartoon-like images that continue to feature in each of the books. (A collector's edition with the original watercolors was recently released.)

Curious George was an instant success, and the Reys were commissioned to write more adventures of the mischievous monkey and his friend, the Man in the Yellow Hat. They wrote seven stories in all, with Hans mainly doing the illustrations and Margret working mostly on the stories, though they both admitted to sharing the work and cooperating fully in every stage of development. At first, however, Margret's name was left off the cover, ostensibly because there was a glut of women already writing children's fiction. In later editions, this was corrected, and Margret now receives full credit for her role in developing the stories.

Margret and her husband moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1963, in a house close to Harvard Square. Following her husband's death in 1977, Margret continued writing, and in 1979, became a Professor of Creative Writing at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Starting in 1980, she also began to collaborate with Alan Shalleck on a series of short films featuring Curious George and more than two dozen additional books.

In 1989 Margret Rey established the Curious George Foundation to help creative children and prevent cruelty to animals. In 1996, she made major donations to the Boston Public Library and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She was also a long-time supporter of the Longy School of Music. The Reys spent twenty summers in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, to enable H.A. Rey to better observe the stars for his astronomy writing. They became an integral part of the Waterville community and their legacy is honored by The Margret and H.A. Rey Center and the Curious George Cottage located there.

Dr. Lena Y. de Grummond, a professor in the field of library science (specializing in children's literature) at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Miss. contacted the Reys in 1966 about the university's new children's literature collection. H.A. and Margret made a donation of a pair of sketches at the time. In 1996, after Margret's death, it was revealed in her will that the entire literary estate of the Reys were to be donated to the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at Southern Miss....more